ZIP 60096 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 60096 (Lake County, Illinois) returns a low composite of 27/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (19/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100). Latent structural risk is 61/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100.

The expansion-phase market in 60096 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The ZIP holds roughly 2,968 housing units. A median home runs $249,100 here, or 2.5 times local income. The poverty rate is 7.3% — low. The vacancy rate is 4.5%. About 22% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. At $94,115, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 6,626 with a median age of 52.

Net-net, 60096 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 60096 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 60096 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 60096, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

60096's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 60096 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.